Kate Millett, a feminist theorist, has one of the first perspectives which suggest that gender is socially constructed rather than biological.  Her perspective focuses on the fact that sex is biological and placed upon us in order to separate the physical appearance from the other. Gender, on the other hand is based upon societal structures that have been set in place from the beginning of time. Gender is more so ‘performed’ and instilled in you opposed to something you are physically born with.  Her perspective allows one to tear down the stereotypes which refer back to gender norms regarding what woman can and can’t do.  In addition to, in  the last 1500’s a woman by the name of Rachel Speght was the first woman known to have published a women’s rights pamphlet in English under her own name. Her pamphlet discussed her perspective within Calvinistic theology to a tract by Joseph Swetmen which denounced women. Speght argued against him  by pointing to women’s worth, her 1621 volume of poetry defended women’s education. Feminism examines the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermines the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women. Feminism doesn’t necessarily  agree that such differences as physical size, shape, and body chemistry make men naturally superior to women. This idea has been something instilled in us as humans unconsciously since birth. For example, more intelligent, logical, and courageous women are not born feminine , and men are not born masculine. Rather, these gender categories are constructed by society. The roles in which both genders perform is not due to genetics or human nature but simply due to the fact that as humans, we fall in line with the ideological views in which society places each of us. When utilizing the feminist perspective to analyze a piece of literature one can see how the main characters are unconsciously functioning under the oppression in which the society has set for a woman. It is up to us as individuals to take a stand and overcome the oppression and ideologies in which this world forces upon us. When one believes that individuals are born without any ideological views instilled inside of them they will see the world from a different perspective versus those who are ignorant of the false reality in which we live.